Vivian is passionate about enhancing real-life experiences through interactive entertainment, including games and virtual worlds. She's driven by the intersection of technology and creativity. With over 15 years of hands-on experience as a creator, co-founder, and product manager, she believes in the transformative potential of these mediums to entertain, educate, inspire, and bring people together.
Over the course of her career, she has designed a hit fashion brand in Second Life, then coaxed kids into enjoying math through 3D number adventure games. Most recently she raised cheeky AI-powered virtual baby dragons that live in VR.
Vivian excels at pushing the boundaries of emerging industries, working with cross-functional teams, aligning values and objectives among stakeholders, looking beyond conventional solutions to uncover opportunities, and making new technologies feel approachable to users.
Building a consumer VR experience in an emerging industry
<aside> 📍 Beast Pets is a VR pet simulator born from the desire to reinvent the virtual pet genre. Our vision was to create magical pets and metaverse companions that have the capacity to grow, learn and develop meaningful relationships with people.
When we first launched Beast Pets in 2017, VR was an emergent industry with few established best practices. Over the next few years, I led our team of problem solvers in developing innovative paradigms and pipelines to overcome new challenges, including:
Toolkits For Handling Complex User Flows